Loading
The same chemotherapy infusion costs payers and patients more in a hospital outpatient department than in a doctor's office; paying one rate would stop hospitals buying clinics to charge the higher price.
Hospital outpatient departments are paid under a separate, higher fee schedule and can add facility fees. As hospitals have acquired community oncology practices, infusions have moved to the dearer setting without any change in what is given. Site-neutral payment sets one price for the same service; Medicare applied it to clinic visits in 2019 and Congress has repeatedly considered extending it to drug administration.
Shares 340B Drug Pricing Program, Financial toxicity, Incentives reward me-too drugs and marginal gains, Prices and value.
Shares 340B Drug Pricing Program, Incentives reward me-too drugs and marginal gains, Prices and value.
Shares Incentives reward me-too drugs and marginal gains, Fragmented care and guideline gaps, Prices and value.
Shares Financial toxicity, Prices and value.
Shares Financial toxicity, Prices and value.
Shares Financial toxicity, Prices and value.
Shares Financial toxicity, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Incentives reward me-too drugs and marginal gains, Prices and value.